Top 58 Quotes by Bette Davis

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.

I don't take the movies seriously, and anyone who does is in for a headache.

Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.

To look back is to relax one's vigil.

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

I'd marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he'd be dead within a year.

Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life.

Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.